Letheobia graueri

Letheobia graueri, also known as the Lake Tanganyika gracile blind snake, Grauer's gracile blind snake,[5] Sternfeld's beaked snake, Grauer's blind snake,[6] is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to Middle and East Africa.[2]

Letheobia graueri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Letheobia
Species:
L. graueri
Binomial name
Letheobia graueri
(Sternfeld, 1912)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops graueri
    Sternfeld, 1912
  • Rhinotyphlops graueri
    — Roux-Estève, 1974[3][4]
  • Letheobia graueri
    — Hedges et al., 2014

Etymology

The specific name, graueri, is in honor of Rudolf Grauer, an Austrian zoologist and explorer.[6]

Geographic range

It is found in Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, western Tanzania, and western Uganda.[2]

References
  1. Spawls, S. 2011. Letheobia graueri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T178733A7605276. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T178733A7605276.en. Downloaded on 15 August 2018.
  2. Letheobia graueri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 18 January 2019.
  3. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  4. "Rhinotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell; Harald Hinkel & Michele Menegon (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 356. ISBN 978-1-4729-4309-5.
  6. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Rhinotyphlops graueri, p. 106).

Further reading
  • Sternfeld R (1912). "Reptilia". pp. 197–279. In: Schuboltz R (editor) (1912). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1907–1908, unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Band IV [Volume 4], Zoologie II. Leipzig: Klinkhard & Biermann. 405 pp. + Plates I-XI. (Typhlops graueri, new species, p. 264). (in German).
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